Daily motion will have to go to the cashier. To finance film production, MEPs adopted last Thursday an amendment to the Finance Act for 2007 amendment, which plans to introduce a fee of 2% on advertising revenue sites offering video, as well as free pay. It relates to the platforms of video, as Daily motion or Glowria, but not only. Once it is established in France, any website "which offers the public […] works or documents or audio-visual film" falls under the law, said the amendment championed by Marie 91 Helena of Esgaulx, UMP deputy for Gironde, and Jerome Chartier, UMP member of the Val-d'Oise.

The scope of this measure is "extremely broad", confirmed to AFP Dahlia Kownator, delegate general of the Association of ISPs and Internet services (AFA), which denounced an amendment which "did subject to any debate or prior consultation with professionals. " Thus, "any Internet service installed in France with the video and advertising would be affected by this levy.

Which includes sites online news, personal websites or blogs. And for all types of videos, including personal, and perhaps even for music, comparable to the audiovisual, fears Dahlia Kownator. "In the end, it is almost all advertising revenue from internet french to be taxed up to 2%," she warned.
"A very French propensity to tax activities emerging"

If the amendment perhaps lack of precision, his target well services, video on demand that the advertising market "related to its service […], for example in the form of banner advertising on pages Home. " Debattu in committee, this proposed tax was recently upheld by the general rapporteur, the UMP Gillez Carrez, who regretted "the very French propensity to tax activities even though they barely emerging." What the MP Marie-Hélène of Esgaulx replied that he "should preserve the coherence of financing for the audiovisual sector". Clearly, websites must contribute like any other. The amendment was adopted by the Finance Committee and then by the Assembly, where Minister of Budget, Eric Woerth, has not bronché. Wednesday, it was the turn of senators to consider the text.

Updated December 13: As stated in the explanatory memorandum, the amendment to the clumsy wording applies to sites video on demand. The blogs, news sites and community will therefore be spared by this texe.